UTRECHT (ANP) - Werknemers van de universitaire medische centra (UMC's) gaan de komende jaren 7 procent meer verdienen. Dat is afgesproken tijdens de onderhandelingen voor een nieuwe cao, meldt vakbond FNV. Die legt het onderhandelingsresultaat net als zorgbonden CNV en NU'91 voor aan haar leden om mee in te stemmen.

De nieuwe cao loopt tot en met 2027. De lonen gaan in juli met 3,5 procent omhoog en in mei volgend jaar met nog eens 3,5 procent. Verder is onder andere afgesproken dat ook op de zaterdagochtend een onregelmatigheidsvergoeding gaat gelden van 47 procent, dat er volgend jaar 4 extra verlofuren bijkomen en dat de stagevergoeding naar 500 euro per maand gaat.

Ook stijgt de kilometervergoeding van 18 cent per kilometer naar 21 cent en worden er aanvullende afspraken gemaakt over hormonale klachten, menstruatie en fertiliteit.

FNV laat weten dat het resultaat er niet zonder slag of stoot kwam en dat op een gegeven moment acties dreigden. "Wij zijn tevreden over de afspraken die we hebben gemaakt en leggen die voor aan onze leden in de UMC's", zegt FNV-bestuurder Elise Merlijn. "Zij hebben het laatste woord en stemmen binnenkort over de cao."

Op een zinderende ontknopingsavond in de Champions League zweefde PSV voortdurend heen en weer tussen euforie en teleurstelling. Maar na een nederlaag zakt de ploeg tot buiten de top-24, en raakt de tussenronde uit zicht.

De Tweede Kamerfracties van D66, de VVD en het CDA hebben ingestemd met het coalitieakkoord dat de partijleiders eerder deze week sloten.

County spokesperson says warrant seeks number of 2020 election records while FBI declines to give further details

The FBI executed a search warrant at the election office in Fulton county, Georgia, on Wednesday for records related to the 2020 election, according to a spokesperson for the county and the FBI.

The warrant sought all ballots from the 2020 election in Fulton county, tabulator tapes, ballot images and voter rolls, according to a warrant obtained by the Guardian.

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Lawyer for Guan Heng, whose exposed evidence of persecution of Uyghurs, says he is ‘textbook example of why asylum should exist’

A US immigration judge has granted asylum to a Chinese national who he said had a “well founded fear” of persecution if sent back to China after exposing alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs there.

Guan Heng applied for asylum after arriving in the US illegally in 2021. He has been in custody since being swept up in an immigration enforcement operation in August last year as part of a mass deportation campaign by the Trump administration.

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Had I received any suspicious text messages claiming to be from my bank, the fraud team asked. Had I clicked on the links? My stomach dropped

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The scariest part about getting scammed was not realising it was happening in the first place.

Perhaps naively, I never thought I would be the victim of a cyber scam. I’m reasonably digitally literate and have had it drilled into me to be wary of phishing emails and strange text messages. I’ve even received training at my workplace on how to safeguard yourself against hacking.

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The laws have been criticised by tech startups, which say they go too far, and civil society groups, which say they don’t go far enough

South Korea has embarked on a foray into the regulation of AI, launching what has been billed as the most comprehensive set of laws anywhere in the world, that could prove a model for other countries, but the new legislation has already encountered pushback.

The laws, which will force companies to label AI-generated content, have been criticised by local tech startups, which say they go too far, and civil society groups, which say they don’t go far enough.

Add invisible digital watermarks for clearly artificial outputs such as cartoons or artwork. For realistic deepfakes, visible labels are required.

“High-impact AI”, including systems used for medical diagnosis, hiring and loan approvals, will require operators to conduct risk assessments and document how decisions are made. If a human makes the final decision the system may fall outside the category.

Extremely powerful AI models will require safety reports, but the threshold is set so high that government officials acknowledge no models worldwide currently meet it.

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Apple is forcing Patreon to move all remaining creators onto Apple's in-app purchase subscription system by November 2026 "or else Patreon would risk removal from the App Store," reports TechCrunch. "Apple made this decision because Patreon was managing the billing for some percentage of creators' subscriptions, and the tech giant saw that as skirting its App Store commission structure." The tech giant initially told Patreon that it must do so by November 2025, but the deadline was pushed back. From the report: "We strongly disagree with this decision," its blog post states. "Creators need consistency and clarity in order to build healthy, long-term businesses. Instead, creators using legacy billing will now have to endure the whiplash of another policy reversal -- the third such change from Apple in the past 18 months. Over the years, we have proposed multiple tools and features to Apple that we could've built to allow creators using legacy billing to transition on their own timelines, with more support added in. Unfortunately, Apple has continually declined them," it says.

Creators can read more about the transition plan on Patreon's website. It has also built several tools to support these changes, including a benefit eligibility tool to see who has paid or is scheduled to pay, tier repricing tools, and gifting and discount tools to offer payment flexibility. An option for annual-only memberships will be introduced before November 2026 as well. The commission on in-app purchases and subscriptions is 30% on Apple's system, but "drops to 15% for a subscription that has been ongoing for more than a year," notes MacRumors. Patreon lets creators either raise prices only in its iOS app to cover Apple's fee or keep prices the same by absorbing the cost, while iPhone and iPad users can avoid the App Store commission entirely by paying through Patreon's website instead.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Investors are souring on the bonds of software companies that service industries ranging from automotive to finance as fast-paced artificial intelligence innovations threaten to upend their business models. [...] Bond prices tumbled as advances in artificial intelligence rack up. Google announced plans to launch an AI assistant to browse for internet surfers Wednesday while a customer support startup, Decagon AI Inc., raised a new round of funding. Such developments are further stoking the angst about AI displacing enterprise software companies, driving a selloff in the sector's stocks and bonds across the globe.

[...] Some say the AI fears weighing on software companies are overdone. "While point-solution software faces disruption risk, large company platforms with complex workflows and proprietary data are better positioned to benefit from AI-driven automation," wrote Union Bancaire Prive in its investment outlook for 2026 released this week. But a recent report by EY-Parthenon flagged that in the UK last year, software and computer services firms issued the highest number of warnings on earnings among listed firms. "Software multiples have compressed amid uncertainty around whether incumbents can defend pricing power and sustain growth in an AI-first work-flow environment," wrote Bruce Richards, chief executive officer and chairman of Marathon Asset Management, in a LinkedIn post last week.

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Google is rolling out an "auto browse" AI agent in Chrome that can navigate websites, fill out forms, compare prices, and handle tedious online tasks on a user's behalf. Bloomberg reports: The feature, called auto browse, will allow users to ask an assistant powered by Gemini to complete tasks such as shopping for them without leaving Chrome, said Charmaine D'Silva, a director of product. Chrome users will be able to plan a family trip by asking Gemini to open different airline and hotel websites to compare prices, for instance, D'Silva explained.
"Our testers have used it for all sorts of things: scheduling appointments, filling out tedious online forms, collecting their tax documents, getting quotes for plumbers and electricians, checking if their bills are paid, filing expense reports, managing their subscriptions, and speeding up renewing their driving licenses -- a ton of time saved," said Parisa Tabriz, vice president of Chrome, in a blog post.

[...] Chrome's auto browse will be available to US AI pro and AI Ultra subscribers and will use Google Password Manager to sign into websites on a user's behalf. As part of the launch, Google is also bringing its image generation tool, Nano Banana, directly into Chrome.
The company said that safeguards have been placed to ensure the agentic AI will not be able to make final calls, such as placing an order, without the user's permission. "We're using AI as well as on-device models to protect people from what's really an ever-evolving landscape, whether it's AI-generated scams or just increasingly sophisticated attackers," Tabiz said during the call.

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A typographic identity for the 23rd Arany Rajzszög Award & Exhibition, Hungary's largest annual graphic design event. Built as a non-dominant system: it marks and organizes the event while keeping the work in front, yet remains unapologetically characterful.

The world’s most popular browser has gained a dedicated sidebar for AI browsing

Google has reworked its Chrome browser to include a new side panel for interacting with the company's Gemini model, in an effort to support AI-assisted interactions with websites.…

Weer voor Rotterdam ☁️

Huidige temperatuur (om 01:16): 1.0°C (Bewolkt)
Windsnelheid: 12.6 km/u (3.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 47°

Luchtkwaliteit:

• AQI: 60 🟡 (Matig)
• PM2.5: 17.9 μg/m³
• PM10: 18.7 μg/m³

Voorspelling voor de komende dagen:

• donderdag 29 januari: Min 0.6°, Max 2.2° (Matige sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 1.0, Kans op neerslag 13%, Windsnelheid: 13.0 km/u (3.6 m/s), richting: ← 77°
• vrijdag 30 januari: Min 0.6°, Max 5.9° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 5%, Windsnelheid: 16.6 km/u (4.6 m/s), richting: ↖ 114°
• zaterdag 31 januari: Min 4.3°, Max 8.5° (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 3.2, Kans op neerslag 20%, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ↖ 136°
• zondag 01 februari: Min 1.4°, Max 6.7° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.6, Kans op neerslag 21%, Windsnelheid: 12.3 km/u (3.4 m/s), richting: ↖ 117°
• maandag 02 februari: Min 2.2°, Max 6.7° (Matige motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 1.3, Kans op neerslag 15%, Windsnelheid: 19.4 km/u (5.4 m/s), richting: ← 100°
• dinsdag 03 februari: Min 3.9°, Max 9.6° (Lichte regen) 🌧️, Neerslag 14.3, Kans op neerslag 38%, Windsnelheid: 24.3 km/u (6.8 m/s), richting: ↑ 167°
• woensdag 04 februari: Min 1.3°, Max 6.5° (Lichte motregen) 🌦️, Neerslag 0.5, Kans op neerslag 15%, Windsnelheid: 15.5 km/u (4.3 m/s), richting: ← 74°

Uurlijkse voorspelling voor de komende 12 uur:

• 02:00: 1.0° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 7%, Windsnelheid: 11.2 km/u (3.1 m/s), richting: ↙ 53°
• 03:00: 0.9° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 18%, Windsnelheid: 10.4 km/u (2.9 m/s), richting: ↙ 50°
• 04:00: 0.8° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 27%, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 45°
• 05:00: 0.8° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 34%, Windsnelheid: 9.4 km/u (2.6 m/s), richting: ↙ 50°
• 06:00: 0.6° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 0.2, Kans op neerslag 39%, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 48°
• 07:00: 0.6° (Matige sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 0.3, Kans op neerslag 41%, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°
• 08:00: 0.6° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 0.2, Kans op neerslag 39%, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ↙ 36°
• 09:00: 0.6° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 0.2, Kans op neerslag 34%, Windsnelheid: 9.0 km/u (2.5 m/s), richting: ↙ 44°
• 10:00: 0.8° (Lichte sneeuw) ❄️, Neerslag 0.1, Kans op neerslag 27%, Windsnelheid: 8.6 km/u (2.4 m/s), richting: ↙ 56°
• 11:00: 1.1° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 19%, Windsnelheid: 7.9 km/u (2.2 m/s), richting: ← 71°
• 12:00: 1.4° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 9%, Windsnelheid: 8.3 km/u (2.3 m/s), richting: ← 74°
• 13:00: 1.7° (Bewolkt) ☁️, Kans op neerslag 2%, Windsnelheid: 7.2 km/u (2.0 m/s), richting: ← 82°

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